Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Willwerth is a TIME correspondent and the author of a Viet Nam book, Eye in the Last Storm. He intensifies his work with a sharp eye for the rat sitting boldly in the entrance of a flophouse or the menacing sense of the street he feels on his way to the subway after a late-night interview. He has also made the sensible decision not to deny his own presence; he straightforwardly records the fears, anger and liking he feels for his troubled subject?even after Jones tells him, perhaps in a mood of false boasting, that he has committed...
...that Ford will probably end up recommending many of Sawhill's proposals by next June." If the President is still unwilling to ask for a gasoline tax, he might possibly accept mandatory measures to discourage auto travel or tax credits for homeowners who invest in better insulation or storm windows. In fact, the Administration has little choice but to push conservation harder; there is not much chance of increasing U.S. energy production enough in the next three years or so to reduce the heavy drain that the high price of foreign oil is imposing on the U.S. balance...
...come? The forecasters can only guess. Even the most skilled meteorologists admit that theirs is one of the least exact sciences. But as they ponder the earth's current erratic weather and study their steadily increasing store of knowledge about past climate, more and more scientists are raising storm warnings for the future. At the very least, they foresee troublesome changes in global temperature and rainfall patterns that could seriously jeopardize the earth's ability to feed itself...
...University, under the law's provisions, will have to comply with students' requests for information--that is, make copies of files available--within 45 days after such requests are made. Thus, early-bird students who storm the newly-designated "files-keeper" in the College on November 19 will be savoring their own life-stories by January 3, 1975, at the latest...
...Whenever a storm with thunder and lightning moved over the sea, he would hurry out to the top of the cliffs as if he had a pact of friendship with the forces of nature, or even went on into the oakwood where the lightning had split a tall tree from top to bottom, which led him to murmur: 'How great, how mighty, how wonderful!' " Thus a friend remembered the wanderings...